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Nonviolent Civil Disobedience And The Employer Based Healthcare System

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4) Organize boycotts of health insurance paid advertising on all the shows that air such ads, and organize teach-ins to educate people to question insurance company tactics of pre-existing conditions and denied care.

5) Partake in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience training.

6) All acts of violence must be rejected such as physical violence against others, including police and health insurance executives.

7) Practice Nonviolence

Gandhi's vision on nonviolence is translated as "Truth Force," meaning both the determination to speak out even when your truth is unpopular, and the willingness to listen to other people's experience. Gandhi also outlined two other components of nonviolence: the refusal to harm others, and the willingness to suffer for one's belief.

Practicing "Love They Enemy" is a process of great spiritual power. Adapting an attitude of respect, support and love will prevent verbal violence such as snide and vicious tones of voice, interrupting, shouting down or misrepresenting what people say, which are the antithesis of respectful communication.

Practicing nonviolence includes expanding awareness of the dignity and humanity of self and others, and is the courageous meditation of love and good-will to all living creatures, even health insurance
executives.

Wendell Potter demonstrates that even health insurance executives can have a wake-up call.

Healthcare reform does not mean health insurance reform.

It means Single Payer, pure and simple.

Please join us in Harrisburg at the Capitol Rotunda for our second Single Payer Rally, starting at 10 am 10/20. Wendell Potter will take the stage with many others. We can then lobby for Single Payer after the rally is over.

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